From the DIY TV website

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While cruising around the internet (bad weather - have to cruise indoors) I found an article on the Do It Yourself TV website. Apparently they are as fond of Cobras as we are. Well written piece.

http://www.diynet.com/DIY/article/0,2058,4919,00.html



"Like No Other Car" -- The CobraB. Mystique

Let's be clear about one thing: the Shelby CobraB. was -- and is -- more than a car. Forget for the moment that the big-block 427 version is still widely considered the fastest American production car ever built. Forget that in the 1960s the racing world was left stunned and nonplussed when this American-built mixed-breed came to Europe and proceeded to devour racetracks, tossing aside such highly bred competitors as Ferarri and Jaguar like matchsticks. Those are historical facts. But the Cobra transcends the facts. This is a machine that has entered the rarified region of myth. This was, in many ways, the perfect sports car -- the epitome and the pinnacle of what a performance vehicle should be. This is what muscle cars dream about while they're asleep at night. What Hemingway was to American letters, Cobra was to the American car. If its closest domestic kin, the supple-handling Corvette, could be likened to Fred Astaire, Cobra is Robert Mitchum -- seething, sinister and capable of clocking you on the jaw so fast you never saw it coming. If the Corvette is a gazelle, Carroll Shelby's creation is the cheetah that chases it down and devours it.